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LXIX. THE CHILDREN GONE.
Balla-Wray.
The laughing children vanish from the hill,
Back to their haunts the wild wood things return;
Again the rabbit rustles through the fern,
And undisturbed their barns the red mice fill.
I wander forth in discontented will;
Half jealous of these creatures' unconcern,
I long to share the little peace they earn
In seeking for their food and being still.
Give back the children's voices!—Then, with shame,
I hear the mosses whisper at my feet,
Would Asphodel or Sundew be as sweet
If all the year their gentle flowerets came?
No—let the children with the swallows fly,—
So loved, so lost, so welcomed by-and-by!
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